Great produce excellent service absolutely tasty fresh fish cooked perfectly definitely be backread more

J W Mettrick & Sons is soooo in the 21st century. They won the award for best online butcher this…read moreyear?? At the Good Housekeeping Food awards (who knew that these existed, love it). They have competitions on their website to win free lots of meat. Also, they have a Twitter page. I'm in awe. Most people however just know them as the king of butchers in this area for their locally produced/ sourced meat such as High Peak Lamb. This is how butchers should be and I hope their grand digital aspirations do not cloud this noble mission. They have gone the way of most forward thinking butchers and also provide small lunchtime meals - from salads and cold meat sandwiches to hot snacks like their pies. Mettricks also do catering services in the local area.

On a Saturday afternoon visit to Glossop we went on a hunt for some fine fine food - with my wife…read morealready declaring how good Mettrick's supposedly was when we drove past in the car. Another fine local business institution - a proper butchers shop with 3-4 different counter areas selling everything from meats to pies, fresh bakery bread and supplies to keep you going such as chutneys and jams. Now I'm the sort of the guy that come even a hint of chilliness in the air has to revert to Sunday lunch being 'Full English Roast' time and now we're into mid October a juicy piece of beef of pork was on my shopping list! I was impressed that at Mettrick's there were so many options in terms of what you could buy with me performing a full 180 and going for some oxtail for (1kg was £8 Oct 2014) a stew (my half made up West Indian oxtail slow cooked stew was awesome by the way...) The staff were friendly, said they could pretty much order anything I ever wanted in which was really refreshing in this day and age of cheap supermarket meat. A definite winner - hopefully I'll be picking up some bacon and burgers next time I'm in town!

The wife says it's fab I think the take away menu is fab ! Bacon butty for a good price yum yum,…read morevery nice!

A fantastic little Deli on Glossop's high street - a real champion of the local area and somewhere…read morethat myself and wife enjoyed visiting when we were in Glossop for the day last week. Fresh bread, meats and cheeses - plus loads of deli items such as chutneys and olives are on offer - and some very tasty looking bread which I will definitely get next time we're visiting. We purchased some lovely Italian bread sticks (think you know supermarket breadsticks? they're not proper breadsticks - try these one from Praze) and a big tub of olives which were amazing. We go chatting with the owner who was super friendly and welcoming - if you're in Glossop make sure you check out Praze, I guarantee you won't be disappointed.

It's a tesco's, you know what to expect! Except in the cafe area! OMG. They Employ a woman who…read moredoesn't know her arse from her elbow and serves at the speed of a very slow disorganized snail! If you want to wait in a queue for over half an hour when there are only 4 people in front of you, and watch a mad woman count the breakfast items over 7 times, then this is your idea of heaven. The cafe let's down an otherwise good tesco's store.

This Tesco has a wide range of facilities and has a clothing section and cafe, and a petrol station…read moreadjacent to it. I must say though that the cafe went downhill recently and since they started self-service the food is often lukewarm or cold. As a supermarket, the shelves are well stocked and the staff are friendly and helpful. There's plenty of checkouts so there's rarely a queue, especially since they introduced self-service checkouts. The store is open 24 hours (except on Sundays) but the best time to shop is after 6pm where many short-dated items are yellow-stickered and you can pick up a bargain for the freezer.